Also yesterday, at the Campo Grande Cemetery in Rio de Janeiro, priests of the Sacred Hearts and lay people from the local community gathered around the tomb of Father M\u00e1ximo Sada in a liturgical act. Father Jo\u00e3o Lucas, SSCC, Father V\u00edtor Borges, SSCC, and Father Ricardo, SSCC, gave thanks to the Lord for the life of the Spanish priest and for his mission here on earth.<\/p>\n
Father M\u00e1ximo Sada, SSCC<\/strong><\/p>\n He professed his religious vows in El Escorial on October 12, 1940. In religious life, he adopted the name of his father, M\u00e1ximo. He completed his studies in Philosophy and Theology in Miranda de Ebro, Burgos. He was ordained in 1946, while in his fourth year of Theology studies, close to Easter. After finishing, he spent a short time at the Sacred Hearts College in Madrid. In 1947, he was sent as a missionary to Brazil.<\/p>\n His first mission was at the Nossa Senhora do Desterro parish in Campo Grande, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, as a parish vicar. In 1954 he was appointed superior and parish priest of the Sagrados Cora\u00e7\u00f5es Parish in Tijuca, in addition to being a councilor of the Pro-Province.<\/p>\n In 1960 he returned to Campo Grande as Parish Priest. In the following years he served in various missions of the Congregation: the S\u00e3o Jos\u00e9 dos Pinhais Seminary and the Hugo Lange Church in Curitiba, Paran\u00e1. From there he went to the Santa Margarida Maria Parish, in Vila Mariana in the city of S\u00e3o Paulo.<\/p>\n In the late 1980s, he returned to the Parish of Our Lady of Exile in Rio, where he ministered his missionary gifts until he was murdered during a robbery. His brother in the community and fellow countryman, Fr. Rafael Azanza, ss.cc, was tasked with informing his family and superiors in Spain of his death. Upon being informed of what had happened, his religious sister serenely stated: \u201cThank God! We have a martyr in the family.\u201d.<\/p>\n The day after the assassination, on the 13th, the funeral mass and the procession of the coffin in a fire truck turned into a moving demonstration by thousands of faithful and friends. The mass was presided over by Cardinal Dom Eug\u00eanio Sales, Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro, and concelebrated by a large number of priests from the Congregation and the Archdiocese.<\/p>\n In Campo Grande, as in Tijuca, among his brothers and sisters of the Sacred Hearts, the witness of Father M\u00e1ximo remains alive. He will always be remembered for his generous death, his kindness, zeal, and apostolic dedication.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Na noite de ontem, o padre Vin\u00edcius Maciel, SSCC, celebrou no Santu\u00e1rio da Sa\u00fade e da Paz, a Santa Missa em A\u00e7\u00e3o de Gra\u00e7as pelo Padre M\u00e1ximo Sada, SSCC. O sacerdote espanhol foi assassinado no dia 12 de julho de 1990 no Rio de Janeiro, quando estava numa casa para dar a b\u00ean\u00e7\u00e3o, momento em que assaltantes apareceram para roubar a resid\u00eancia. Durante a celebra\u00e7\u00e3o, padre Vin\u00edcius lembrou a trajet\u00f3ria do religioso, que saiu da Espanha como mission\u00e1rio dos Sagrados Cora\u00e7\u00f5es e perdeu sua vida como um verdadeiro m\u00e1rtir da viol\u00eancia urbana. Na tarde de uma quinta-feira uma jovem solicitou […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noticias"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.padreeustaquio.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Padre-Maximo-Sada-sscc-e1689244179760-192x300.jpeg\")
Father M\u00e1ximo Sada Rodeles, ss.cc, was born in Olite \u2013 Navarre, Spain, on September 3, 1919. He was baptized with the name Miguel. He entered the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts at a very young age and began his novitiate during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Because of the war, his novitiate was interrupted and only resumed after its end.<\/p>\n